The St. Pauli Chronicle
Match19 Dec 2026
St. Pauli win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. VfB Stuttgart will replay every second of the added time for a week.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nick Schmidt keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” St. Pauli may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Emirhan İlkhan goes up and wins it — 7.98
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.98 for the rest of it.
Market21 Dec 2026
St. Pauli may not be able to give Mathias Pereira Lage what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mathias Pereira Lage wants continental football; whether St. Pauli can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Joel Chima Fujita in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at St. Pauli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at St. Pauli
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eric Smith was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nobody wins at St. Pauli
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
One of their own: Emirhan İlkhan
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match19 Dec 2026
The drought breaks for St. Pauli
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and VfB Stuttgart were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
In brief
- Match St. Pauli see off VfB Stuttgart
- Squad Marwin Schmitz signs on for more
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jackson Irvine